I’m in the mood to link
The previous post dates from Saturday… I started writing it about 1 am, and forgot about it; it was still in my journaling app this morning 🙂
Managed to wake up this morning not feeling like death warmed over, but in fact a little optimistic about the day. We’ll see how long it lasts, especially on a work Tuesday, but it’s a nice change.
Pulled out my new Xmas present sketch pad for the first time last night, and started drawing a character I’ve been thinking about for the last few weeks. I mainly managed to prove to myself how out of practice I’ve become, but I’m not giving up. Drawing and painting have been on my mind a lot lately, and there’s a piece I wanted to do for last year’s T-con that I’d love to have ready this year.
w00t_comic‘s been funny this week… a good “gaydar” joke in the previous comic, and a Harry Potter in-joke on a t-shirt in the most recent one. I think that joke has custom-button potential for the early-year cons.
Ever heard a tin flute dancing?
I fear that WVTF is about to play the entire Nutcracker Suite at me.
I like many parts of that composition, I’m not as sick of it as I am of some other holiday music, but I wasn’t planning to listen to the whole thing right now at work.
Office conversation
“Microscopic bugs in your hair, mites on your skin – do you have any idea what’s in your blood?”
“Ummm… a tiny submarine carrying Raquel Welch?”
“Or worse, Chris Rock and David Hyde Pierce…”
This guy was serious
“You guys charge by the word, right?”
“Yes sir.”
“Okay, the ad reads: 1998 Framistan 300, 2001 Geezberg 197, 1972 Hoopyloc 180, and 1986 Felgercarb 200. $1000 for all. 540-555-1234.”
“Okay, sir, that’s 17 words.”
“No, it’s only seven words. The rest are numbers, so I get them for free.”
“… what?”
Another Roanoke Valley Saturday
Yesterday was quite productive, I got four other people in my office to Talk Like a Pirate.
dot/Hack definitely has raininva and myself sucked in, I’m up to seven hours of play, and I’m not sure how many Rain has. The “game within a game” aspect appeals greatly to my interests in metareality, and I’m pretty impressed with the emotional range of the characters – not something that most of my PlayStation games do much with.
Our Kellan Colt promotional figures for Shadowrun: Duels came this morning, so now we have a truly complete set of Series One. I’ve noticed that there’s already a FAQ posted on the official site with clarifications and errata. What did we gamers do before the Internet?
Rising Star has a staff meeting this afternoon in Blacksburg, and I’m looking forward to discussing ideas for the Emcee skit with rattrap and yubbie. I know that there will be other, less entertaining issues raised at the meeting, but I have a great deal of faith in RS and the people who make it happen. I see no reason yet to change my opinion.
Titanium For Sale
My boss wants to sell his Apple G4 “Titanium” PowerBook and upgrade to a faster desktop. This is one of the original G4 PowerBooks with a 400 MHz Motorola PowerPC, 10 GB hard disk, slot-loading CD/DVD drive, and an 8 Meg ATI Rage Mobility 128 video card. Memory has been upgraded to 384 Megs. It will cheerfully run MacOS 9.1 through the current MacOS X 10.2.6.
Complete stats may be found here:
http://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/stats/powerbook_g4_400.html
He’s asking $1200 for it. If there’s any interest, drop me a note!
